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Kickass – Asteroid on any web page

kickassapp.com

If you click 'Add to your site' you are presented with a registration form. Blurred out behind it you can see step 1 as 'Setup a payment'. There is no way to see what this payment is without registering, but I am pretty sure that; A: Whatever the price is, it's too high. B: Very few people are going to register just to see a price. C: This is kind of a dick move. Post your pricing upfront and center.

$9.99 / mo

$99 / yr

[0] https://imgur.com/VB14WHa

Doesn't work if the page is prevented from using XSS content. Error looks like: "(unknown) Refused to load the script 'https://hi.kickassapp.com/kickass.js' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src .facebook.com .fbcdn.net .facebook.net .google-analytics.com .virtualearth.net .google.com 127.0.0.1:* .spotilocal.com: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net fbcdn-static-b-a.akamaihd.net *.atlassolutions.com blob: data: 'self'"."

This is still my favourite example ever of a clever way to convince users to self-XSS themselves on just about any website one can imagine. Better hope that game's code isn't doing anything malicious behind the scenes :).

Nice & quite similar to the Katamari hack at: http://kathack.com/

Kathack has some great music as well.

For some reason it doesn't work on this page :)

EDIT: Ah, because of: Refused to load the script 'https://hi.kickassapp.com/kickass.js' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive...

This actually reminds me I should start using this on my projects.

I have a "Kill Sticky" bookmarklet that someone linked on here eons ago, that I wish I could attribute proper credit.

This one however, is much more fun.

Cool idea/execution!

@alisdair – https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

That was fun :)

Seems like a fun (if not particularly effective) way to test CSS graceful degradation too.

I remember this from what feels like a long time ago! Cool to see the new features like high scores and ships.

Will you open-source it?

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1737276 (7 years ago!)

Articles do get resubmitted from time to time. Dupe only applies if it's following closely on the heels of another submission. In this case, 7 years is plenty to distinguish itself as a valid submission. It's often useful to link (without the "dupe") to the previous discussion (as you did) as there's often useful info there. In this case, there 75 comments.

sorry, 'dupe' was meant as a joke, hence the '!'.

"Destroy the web" better title;)

perfect for sites with boring content and annoying ads.

Why would you visit such sites? :)

To play Asteroids. Isn't it obvious?;)

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